Captain Easy and naked skiing
Well, actually, it’s his sidekick, Wash Tubbs, that I’m thinking of, because every time we’ve had a great day skiing, all I can think of is Tubbs’s signature line, “I ain’t mad at nobody!”
Sunny, clear day yesterday with some fresh snow, and though we were blacked out at Snow, we were welcomed at Haystack, which turned out to be fabulous. Nearly everyone there was there for college ski races, meaning the rest of the slopes were wide open and in great condition. The college kids were, shall we say . . . spirited. It was about 15 degrees. Many of the girls were skiing in extremely short pleated skirts. (The idea of Catholic school girls is much better than the reality of Catholic school girls.) Some skied in their panties. (Blue is not a hot color for legs this year, by the way.) Many of the boys were in dresses. We were on the lift going past the start house when one of the boys, in a lovely lacy green number, decided to doff the dress and ski the way nature intended him to. (This was a giant slalom course, and featured the only ice on the mountain, so if he went down, he’d be leaving skin behind.) And I saw one giant fellow in a custom-made dress whose back was the healthy blue-white color of frostbite. Oh, to be young and dumb again! (I was dumb about frostbite at a much younger age, and it has left me with sensitive tootsies.)
So, having seen her first naked man and not having been much impressed, Bekah worked on what the USCSA on the banners meant — we settled on US Crazy Skiers Association or US Cautious Skiing Association.
President’s week! The week in which we honor our founding fathers with automobile sales and discount mattresses! What a state of affairs. The kids have it off, but have signed up for a technology camp the town is putting on, where they’ll be learning how to make a movie. East Greenbush is the Hollywood of Rensselaer County, you know. Well, actually, Troy is — but I expect after this they’ll start playing with iMovie and making feature films starring American Girl dolls.